Meet Axiom from Blue Cat, a universal and open software for modeling multi-effects and amps for guitar and bass. Built on Destructor’s renowned amp modeling plugin, Axiom offers an endless supply of exceptional tones to enhance the musical expression of your axe.
Powerful and limitless multi-effects and amp modeling software for guitar and bass.
Authentic, fully customizable amp modeling powered by Blue Cat’s Destructor.
Versatile routing with 2 parallel amp modeling channels and extensive input and master sections.
Over 100 high-quality built-in effects – from wah, delay and reverb to equalizer, filters, distortion, compressors, gates, chorus, flanger, phaser and more.
Blue Cat’s Re-Guitar, Destructor and Late Replies are included as built-in effects.
Customize the user interface to suit your preferences, from simple EZ mode to deep editing.
Seamless recording over backing tracks (Application).
Lightning-fast built-in tuner for precise tuning.
Built-in MIDI-controlled looper.
An open and extensible platform that supports third-party VST, VST3 and Audio Unit (AU) plugins.
Loading and manipulating impulse responses (IR) in an amp simulator or equalizer plugin.
Comes with thousands of presets for all sections and built-in effects.
Download third-party virtual instruments to play along with them.
Simplified effect control with customizable macro parameters.
Global control of stereo spread.
Locking sections to prevent changes when loading presets.
No delays.
Axiom V2 represents a significant step forward in guitar software, bridging the gap between beginners looking for user-friendly features and experienced users craving advanced features.
Redesigned User Interface:
Introduced “EZ Mode,” a customizable view that makes key controls easier to access, ideal for live performances and quick tone adjustments.
New 3D HD graphics offer a variety of styles for amps, pedals and custom macro controllers.
Create your own unique amps and pedals with the new Rack Designer, featuring a huge selection of knobs, backgrounds, bezels and grips. (over 200,000 styles available).
Assign specific colors to each pedal/insert (these also appear on the EZ View pedals).
Simplified editing of macro controls, including drag-and-drop, load/save assignments from file, and copy/paste functionality.
Each Axiom preset now forms a complete rig with multiple pedals and easily controlled macro parameters for EZ View.
New built-in input mute function (no need for a plug-in anymore).
Direct Recording and Playback to Disc:
Record application output to a file with one click.
Seamlessly play back tracks with the new built-in audio player that supports wav, mp3 and flac formats.
Drag and drop audio files directly into plugin slots to open the audio player.
Improved DSP Engine for More Realistic Tones:
Includes the Destructor 2.0 non-linear processing engine, featuring improved modeling, new filters and precise control over the behavior of dynamics parameters.
Complete redesign of all models of guitar and bass amps and pedals based on the new Destructor V2 engine.
All-new high gain guitar tones built from the ground up.
Adjusted EQ frequencies and bandwidths for all guitar and bass amps to emulate the behavior of real amps.
Select the EQ position of amps and pedals in the signal chain (before or after distortion) and simulate a wider range of equipment.
Access tons of new effects, including over 100 shortcuts to built-in effects and presets.
Plugin resampling is now available, reducing aliasing (up to 16 times). Please note: Some third party plugins may not support higher sample rates correctly.
Designed for acoustic guitars and piezo pickups:
Includes Re-Guitar 1.3 with piezo input support.
New factory presets for acoustic guitars and electric guitars with piezo speakers.
New models of amplifiers and preamps for acoustic guitars.
Improved MIDI control:
New EZ View footswitches that automatically map to loaded plugins in order, regardless of slots used.
New BASS, MID, TREBLE controls for the Destructor EQ, following which EQ is selected (Pre or Post).
Axiom can now use native parameters in macro controllers, mixing them with parameters of loaded plugins.
Synchronizing multiple MIDI controllers: When “all channels” (0) are used to control a MIDI input and the “send MIDI events when parameter values change” option is active, the plugin now sends MIDI events to all other channels to update other controllers.
Axiom’s MIDI control lock (preventing MIDI control settings from being changed when loading presets) now also preserves MIDI control lock for amps if set.
Other new features and improvements:
Improved GUI performance, especially on Mac.
Improved resampling when the plugin starts streaming audio as a network server using the Connector.
Fixed several undo/redo issues.
Macro LEARN mode is now automatically disabled when closing the Params Map Editor.
The AAX plugin now reports recording status to hosting plugins (in recent versions of Pro Tools that support this).
Updated parameter layout for non-GUI plugins to allow plugins with multiple parameters.
The general plugin editor without a GUI now matches the Axiom zoom level.
Reduced plugin loading time.
Fixed a crash when opening the VST2 GUI editor of a free plugin whose parameters use a non-Unicode encoding (piz-midi plugins).
Fixed problems with the plugin slots menu when loading plugins with more than 22380 parameters under Windows.
Ableton Live 11: Fixed VST3 MIDI input not being detected.
Fixed notes getting stuck in some VST3 instruments.
Fixed missing audio in some VST3 instruments (such as Toontrack instruments).
Fixed VST plugin version crashing on load when a custom preset defaults to impulse response in the amp simulator.
Fully compatible with Axiom V1.
Update 2.01 (2023/09/12):
Fixed Audio Unit validation in Logic Pro.
Update 2.02 (2023/09/14):
Fixed crash of VST plugin in Ableton Live 11 when loading.
Update 2.03(2023/09/18):
Fixed occasional crashes when unloading a plugin in multiple hosts (Pro Tools, Live).
Update 2.04 (2023/09/20):
Fixed a crash when unloading the Reason 12 VST3 plugin.
Fixed issues with Logic’s Audio Unit validation when a default custom preset was defined before upgrading to V2.
When viewing presets in EZ mode, the preset would sometimes be marked as modified.